Development of a spray system for an unmanned aerial vehicle platform

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 803-809

  Huang, Yanbo ^a   Hoffmann, Wesley C ^b   Lan, Yubin ^b   Wu, Wenfu ^c   Fritz, Bradley K ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autonomous flight; Site specific application; Spray system; Unmanned aerial vehicle; Wireless telemetry system

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; SITE-SPECIFIC; SITE-SPECIFIC APPLICATION; SPRAY SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELEMETRY SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 74049134369     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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